We’ve already brought you the trailer for the latest Aaron Seltzer/Jason Friedberg affront to parody, The Starving Games, but it’s not a real genre-spoofer unless there’s another film exactly like it coming out at the same time. Scary Movie V had A Haunted House, and thus, The Hungover Games is brought to us by Jamie Kennedy and his writing team, as well as director Josh Stolberg, who wrote Piranha 3D and Good Luck Chuck and helmed such “coming of age” films as Feels So Good and Kids in America.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Isn’t The Hungover Games a much better parody title than The Starving Games?” Yes, I will definitely give someone credit for that, and that would be the people behind this Funny or Die parody from last year and this other random YouTube spoof as well. But hey, I can’t be all negative about this one, because it does have former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett in it.

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And not only is that Hank Baskett, but he’s joined by Bruce Jenner.

You know, I can’t help but look at the two former athletes in this trailer and wonder if OJ Simpson is to blame for the plummet that the parody genre took in regard to quality. And the answer is yes. Yes he is.

In the interest of fairness, this does look better than starving games. The conceit of the hangover guys waking up there is borderline clever, and the effects don’t look like they were done on that one iPhone explosion app.

In other words, if I was drunk on a Saturday night and this was on comedy central when I stumbled in the door, I wouldn’t immediately change the channel.

This just reminds me they need to make a sequel to Heckler, that doc that followed Kennedy around while he cried about meanie critics. I could easily watch another 90 minutes of that dude getting shat on.